Employee Engagement Manager (1 year contract)

Veeam is the Data and AI Trust Company, specializing in helping organizations ensure their data and AI are fully understood, secured, and resilient to enable the acceleration of safe AI at scale. As the market leader in both data resilience and data security posture management, Veeam is built for the convergence of identity, data, security, and AI risk. Headquartered in Seattle with offices in more than 30 countries, Veeam protects over 550,000 customers worldwide, who trust Veeam to keep their businesses running. Join us as we go fearlessly forward together, growing, learning, and making a real impact for some of the world’s biggest brands. About the Role As our Employee Engagement Manager, you will design, execute, and continuously improve the “moments that matter” to enhance employee engagement and cultivate our unique culture. You will lead and collaborate on initiatives such as culture-building, employee listening, and engagement—leveraging data, technology, and your expertise to foster a culture of belonging, innovation, and high performance. Reporting to the Head of Culture, Employer Brand & Experience, you will work cross-functionally to create scalable, impactful solutions that drive retention, satisfaction, and employee advocacy. You will champion our values and behaviors in every aspect of your work, ensuring our employee experience reflects our commitment to unity, customer-centricity, innovation, accountability, and making every conversation matter. What You’ll Do - Develop and Execute Engagement Strategies: Design and implement programs, initiatives, and activities that elevate employee engagement and morale, aligned with our mission, values, and business objectives. Manage planning, budgeting, communication, stakeholder management, and measurement of impact. - Employee Listening & Insights: Contribute to the design and execution of end-to-end employee feedback programs (e.g., surveys, focus groups, sentiment analysis) to measure employee experience and culture. Analyze data and feedback to inform actionable recommendations, driving accountability and continuous improvement. Partner with analytics teams to deliver real-time, stakeholder-first reporting and insights for data-driven decision-making. Report on key employee experience metrics and present findings to leadership. - Continuous Improvement & Innovation: Stay ahead of industry trends and best practices, boldly experimenting and learning quickly from outcomes to continuously elevate employee engagement. Pilot and implement new tools and processes that enhance satisfaction, retention, and innovation. - Culture Champions Community Management Experience: Develop and lead our Culture Champion program to cultivate our desired culture, ensuring it evolves with the organization’s growth and changing needs. - Event Planning Support: Support our community on how to organize employee events, support recognition programs, team-building activities, and wellness initiatives that foster community and connection. - Stakeholder Collaboration: Partner with HR, IT, Facilities, and business leaders to deliver integrated employee experience solutions. Serve as a trusted advisor and ambassador for employee experience, embodying our values and driving impactful results. What You’ll Bring -5+ years of experience in employee experience, talent management, or related HR roles in a tech or high-growth environment. - Proven success in designing and delivering employee engagement and listening programs at scale. - Expertise in employee engagement strategies and best practices. - Advanced knowledge of employee listening methodologies, survey design, and data analysis. - Strong understanding of HR technology platforms (engagement, analytics, feedback tools ideally Qualtrics). - Exceptional communication, presentation, and stakeholder management skills; able to influence at all levels. - Hands-on execution in fast-paced, collaborative, and inclusive environments. - Demonstrated agility and adaptability to drive results during rapid change. - Passion for fostering innovative, accountable, and high-performing cultures. - Robust project management and process improvement capabilities. - Experience working with global and remote teams is a strong plus. What You’ll Get - 21 annual vacation days, additional days based on tenure, plus 4 extra global VeeaMe Days for self-care and 24 paid volunteer hours annually through Veeam Cares - Private health, dental, and vision insurance for employees and dependents, including outpatient care, hospitalization, pregnancy monitoring, and psychology support - Monthly lifestyle and daily meal benefits: 40 RON/day via Edenred and 600 RON/month through a flexible cafeteria platform - Life insurance (2× annual gross salary), critical illness, and disability coverage, plus vision reimbursement - Free access to Bookster library platform for borrowing your favorite books for free - Opportunities to learn and grow through on-demand libraries (LinkedIn Learning, O’Reilly), mentoring, workshops and learning events like our annual Global Day of Learning #LI-IN1 Veeam Software is an equal opportunity employer and does not tolerate discrimination in any form on the basis of race, color, religion, gender, age, national origin, citizenship, disability, veteran status or any other classification protected by federal, state or local law. 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